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发表于2024-12-22
Survival of the Sickest pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
Synopsis
In this groundbreaking and absorbing book, wunderkind Dr. Sharon Moalem delves back into the evolution of man to reveal hitherto unknown and astonishing ways the human body is built to survive. With this revolutionary new book, Sharon Moalem completely turns modern medicine's understanding of disease on it's head. "It is not," he argues, "that dark country to which we're exiled when we're not 'healthy.' The truth, I intend to show you, is much more interesting and encouraging." His research will reveal that many common diseases are in fact complicated blessings. In considering the question of why diseases exist, Moalem proposes that most common diseases came into existence for very good reasons. Diabetes, hemochromatosis, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia all may exist because at some point they helped our ancestors survive some grand challenge to human existence. In turn, he also discovered that genetic and cultural differences have led to each race having different and unique ways of reacting to their environment and subsequently how they become susceptible to certain diseases.
With mesmerizing insight, Moalem demonstrates how diabetes may be a by-product of a mechanism that helped humans survive the Ice Age, why African Americans living in the north might suffer from vitamin D deficiencies, and why Asians can't drink as much alcohol as Europeans. Information in this book is extremely timely, such as Moalem's exploration of the Avian Flu, a disease that threatens to be the world's next great pandemic. Revelatory and written in an utterly engaging fashion, Sharon Moalem's book will change the way we think about our own bodies.
沙倫·莫勒姆,博士,獲奬科學傢、醫生,以及《紐約時報》暢銷書作者。其研究和作品通過醫藥學、遺傳學、曆史和生物學的相互融閤,以一種新穎而又引人入勝的方式來解釋人類的身體是如何工作的。他還是《紐約時報》暢銷書《病者生存》(Survival of the Sickest)和《性之謎》 (How Sex Works)的作者。他的著作已被翻譯成30餘種語言。
evolutionary disease
評分2020開篇原版書,有趣滿分,打開新世界滿分,原本計劃7天讀完,實際9天
評分嚴重好於預期。有趣而震撼。十分值得重讀。筆記: DNA is not destiny. DNA is history.
評分這本書加上selfish genes, 我覺得業餘遺傳愛好者就可以無敵瞭~
評分evolutionary disease
September 06, 2008 Survival of the Sickest: The Surprising Connection between Disease and Longevity 这本书的名字只是个噱头,并不是书真正的论点,副标题起得更是不着边。此书其实是本介绍进化生物学理论的科普书。我对此一题目向来就有兴趣,因此读来很有收获。 作...
評分生命,本就是一种妥协。科学就是不断修正,我们在批判前人结论的基础上建设。进化只是解决当时一个问题,并不是全面的。我们体内遗留的一些基因只是保障我们明天不死,而不是40年后不死。就像那句话“那些杀不死我们的,迟早会杀死我们”。David M·Buss的《进化心理学》也可以...
Survival of the Sickest pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024